This list was compiled using hate group publications and websites, citizen and law enforcement reports, field sources and news reports.

Hate group activities can include criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing. Websites appearing to be merely the work of a single individual, rather than the publication of a group, are not included in this list. Listing here does not imply a group advocates or engages in violence or other criminal activity.

An interesting feature of the SPLC hate group map above includes the ability to drill down by state, identifying the names, locations, and causes of various hate groups.

Surprisingly or not, many hate groups operate in areas of the country that have higher levels of diversity — in 2011, California lead the nation with 84 identified hate groups in this list, Georgia contained 65, and another 55 were found in Florida. Combined, New York and New Jersey totaled 84 hate groups.

Further, while the Southern Poverty Law Center qualifies that their hate group listing does not suggest that a given group is prone to acts of violence, a survey of the SPLC’s listing of hate incidents in 2011 (based largely on media reports) reveals that states with such high activity account for the largest number of hate crime incidents (California had the highest among states with 66 listings in 2011, and New York/New Jersey combined for 34 incidents).